Orbán loses in Hungary.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party defeated Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz Party in Hungary’s parliamentary elections, unseating the 16-year incumbent. With 98% of the vote counted, Orbán and Fidesz had won 56 parliamentary seats, while Magyar and Tisza Party won 137 seats, giving it a two-thirds supermajority. Orbán had been supported by the Trump administration, which viewed him as a key ally in the European Union (EU).
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:09.1 | Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 0:28.6 | This is Associate Editor Audrey Moorhead, and today we're going to be covering the recent Hungarian election results. |
| 0:34.7 | But before we get into that, once a month, we release a member-only podcast called |
| 0:38.8 | PressPass that pulls back the curtain on our work here at Tangle, shares insider updates on our |
| 0:43.6 | business, and lets you in on the big debates and events taking place behind the scenes. Each edition |
| 0:48.4 | also includes a profile of a team member. This month, Isaac is writing about his experience engaging |
| 0:53.7 | with Gen Z, shout out to my |
| 0:55.8 | generation, on college campuses, and he's profiling senior editor Will Kayback. You can check it out |
| 1:00.8 | on whatever platform you listen to the Tangle podcast on. Now I'm going to be handing it off to John |
| 1:05.2 | for today's topic, and then I'll be back for my take. |
| 1:14.5 | Thanks. I'll be back for my take. Thanks, Audrey, and welcome, everybody. |
| 1:16.6 | Here are your quick hits for today. |
| 1:18.4 | First up, Representative Eric Swalwell, the Democrat from California, |
| 1:22.0 | announced his resignation from Congress as he faces multiple sexual misconduct allegations. |
| 1:27.6 | Swalwell continues to deny the accusations, but also said he must take responsibility and |
| 1:32.7 | ownership for the mistakes I did make. |
| 1:35.2 | Separately, Representative Tony Gonzalez, the Republican from Texas, announced his intention |
| 1:39.6 | to resign from Congress after acknowledging an affair with his former staffer. |
| 1:44.5 | Number two, U.S. and Iranian officials may return to Pakistan later this week to resume negotiations over the war. |
| 1:51.3 | Number three, a federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, |
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